{"id":373348,"date":"2026-07-15T00:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373348\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T00:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:53:09","slug":"spain-beats-france-2-0-at-att-stadium-in-arlington-texas-to-reach-world-cup-final-14-sources-western-mainstream-8-newscord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373348\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain Beats France 2-0 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas to Reach World Cup Final: 14 Sources (Western Mainstream: 8) | NewsCord"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spain stun France 2-0<\/p>\n

Oyarzabal opened the scoring from the spot in the 22nd minute, and Pedro Porro made it 2-0 with a 58th-minute goal as Spain controlled the game from start to finish.<\/p>\n

\"Image\"BBC\"BBC<\/a><\/p>\n

France\u2019s defeat came despite a World Cup semifinal featuring Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, Michael Olise, and Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, and USA Today said Les Bleus finished with 0.30 expected goals and created zero big chances.<\/p>\n

France midfielder Rayan Cherki called the loss \u201cWe lost against ourselves,\u201d while Spain manager Luis de la Fuente said, \u201cWe did it with discipline, organised, commitment, effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quotes and match framing<\/p>\n

After Spain advanced, Luis de la Fuente told reporters he had \u201cno preference\u201d between a final opponent of England or Argentina, saying, \u201cRight now, we don\u2019t prefer one or the other.\u201d<\/p>\n

The New York Times also noted that Spain will face either England or reigning champions Argentina, while France will contest Saturday\u2019s third-place play-off.<\/p>\n

\"Image\"CBSCBS News<\/a><\/p>\n

In the match narrative, USA Today said Spain extended its lead to 2-0 with a 58th-minute strike from right back Pedro Porro, and it described Spain as having started Fabi\u00e1n Ruiz over Pedri.<\/p>\n

BBC Sport\u2019s player ratings reflected the same outcome, with Kylian Mbappe assessed as \u201cHad just two touches in Spain\u2019s penalty area in the first half and struggled to cause much of a threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next for both<\/p>\n

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram said Spain will face the winner of England-Argentina in the World Cup final at 2 p.m. Sunday in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and it described the semifinal as defense prevailing in a 2-0 win.<\/p>\n

NBC News reported that Spain will play in its first World Cup final since 2010, and it quoted Pedro Porro saying, \u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true. I couldn\u2019t even dream of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

CBS News added that the loss means France failed in its effort to reach its third consecutive final, and it placed France in the third-place game in Miami Gardens, Florida, on Saturday, the day before the final at MetLife Stadium across the river from New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain stun France 2-0 Oyarzabal opened the scoring from the spot in the 22nd minute, and Pedro Porro…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,132092,132089,132091,132090,132093,154],"class_list":["post-373348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-media-analysis","tag-media-bias","tag-news-compared","tag-news-comparison","tag-spain-beats-france-2-0-at","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}